Which is to say: Excuse me if I want to get that out of the way (I’m sure we’ll deal with the fallout from it, and the call Sarah gets, in next week’s episode). Hearing pundits try to make sense of that election through the credits left me gutted once again - and even more terrified about the coming one, in turn.
I’m still shaken from needing to relive that night - and from hearing the then-already empty promises of unity and of a newfound “presidential” demeanor in the president-elect. But I never really expected the show to drop us into postelection coverage as it does in the final moments of this episode. We’ve seen MAGA hats and Trump rallies, even snippets of the debates throughout the past few episodes. We knew the 2016 election was playing out in the background.
